misc/34596: slow gettimeofday in FreeBSD 4.5

[David Malone]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:10:14PM -0700, gson at nominum.com wrote:
>  That's more than 5 microseconds on a 2.8 GHz processor, or more than
>  14000 clock cycles per call.
>  
>  Other info:
>  
>    $ grep -i time /var/run/dmesg.boot 
>    Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>    $ sysctl kern.timecounter
>    kern.timecounter.method: 0
>    kern.timecounter.hardware: i8254

What happens if you try "sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC"?

	David.